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after years of outrage from travele travelers, the government sets get to relax the security rules to airports across the country, especially for kids. that could mean pewer pat-downs and all in the effort for less screening for would-be terrorists. tell when the crank goes into effect. the government picks up big wins including a stunning victory in a seat held by anthony weiner. republicans call it a loud and clear message to president obama who goes back on the road to sell his economic plan. the number of americans living in poverty hits a record number in years. leap into action to save the life of a motorcyclist trapped under the burning car you see. we will talk to four of those heroes "early" this wednesday morning, september 14th, 2011.
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good morning. i'm erica hill. >> good morning, i'm chris wragge. we have been talking about the heat in texas all summer long. dallas hit an all-time record on tuesday. 70 days of hundred-degree heat. contributing, of course, to the worst wildfires in texas history, destroying more than 1,500 homes. we will check in with our dallas/ft. worth station ktve when the triple digit heat will be over. >> it has been a long summer. first, get ready for big changes at the airport. homeland security officials say they want to keep terrorists guessing and that means changing how the tsa treats passengers, especially kids. mark strassmann is in atlanta
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with the details. mark, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, chris. >> why the move right now and when can we expect the changes? >> reporter: tenth anniversary of 9/11 is behind us. kids 12 years old or no longer will have to wear shoes and receive fewer pat-downs through security and rolled outline the next few weeks in many airports and many more airports in the next few months. this is video in april in new orleans of 6-year-old anna drexel being patted down. she was upset. her parents hit the roof and they posted the video on youtube. after a lot of public outrage, the tsa said we will work on this. here are the new steps other than kids don't have to wear their shoes. if they fail to go through the screeners safely, they will be allowed multiple tries to go through it again. if that doesn't work, they will have a swap test on their hand looking for explosive residue and only as a last resort will
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they then be patted down. this to a lot of parents show more respect. >> let's talk about the parents and other adults traveling. when are restrictions easing up on adults? is that something that's in the future? >> reporter: it's started to some degree. a pilot program under way for frequent flyers. they would have expedited security and sort of a prescreening in exchange for giving some personal information. that program could be expanded soon. also the tsa is now talking about letting people wear shoes. not only kids, but their parents and all adults. they still haven't established a time line for that but saying at least it's now in the conversation stage. for the tsa, this is a fine line. they want to keep their critics happy and keep everybody safe at the same time. >> that would speed things along. mark strassmann in atlanta, thank you. talking politics. a setback at the polls for
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president obama and the democrats. in new york a former congressman won anthony weiner' previous seat. gop won a congressional seat in nevada. nancy cordes joins us from capitol hill. when you take a look at these gop victories was this as some are calling it a referendum on the president and on diagnoses or is this more about drickistr and local politics? >> reporter: certainly this was a referendum on the president they will argue and have a pretty good case. as you pointed out, democrats outnumber republicans in the new york district 3-1. a republican has not held that seat since the 1920s. president obama won the district by 11 points in 2008 but polling poorly the past few weeks there. democratic operatives poured another 500,000 in tv ads to turn the race around, with you it wasn't enough. >> reporter: so that gives us an
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idea. >> i think a lot of folks are wondering what this could mean heading toward for the democrats and the president in 2012. >> reporter: what democrats will argue this is not representative and it doesn't mean anything for 2012. they say a lot of mitigating factors in this race. first, congressman weiner's embarrassing conduct that led him to stepped down and they say that poisoned the race for this democrat who didn't run a perfect race. then the fact that there are about 40% of the people in this district who are jewish. many of whom were upset by the president's stance on israel. so democrats say that this doesn't mean anything going forward but certain to be a lot of soul-searching in the party. if they lose a seat like this is considered so safe what do they have to do differently next year. >> nancy cordes on capitol hill, thanks. president obama hits the road this morning to sell his new jobs bill and hoping to rally democratic support in a key state. cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plante has more now on the president's
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travels. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, erica. the president as approval ratizing near all-time lows but white house officials say it's way higher than congress so the press is on the offensive. taking this message to raleigh today the same way he took yesterday to congress. it's a challenge to congress if you don't pass my jobs bills, you'll answer to the voters. >> democrats and republicans have supported every kind of proposal that is in the american jobs act he and we need to tell them to support the proposals now. >> reporter: today, the president heads to raleigh, durham in north carolina. hard hit by the recession. unemployment is 10.1%. one point higher than the national average. a report shows 46 million americans are living in poverty. more now than at any point in the last half century. and household income is down 6.4% since 2007. this trip to north carolina, like previous trips to ohio and virginia, is about the need for
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jobs. but it's also about politics. >> hello! north carolina! >> reporter: north carolina voted democrat for the first time in 30 years in 2008. and this will be the president's seventh trip there since taking office. >> well, virginia and ohio and north carolina are all-important states politically for the president. all states that he won in 2008. and states that he will need to win again in 2012. >> reporter: but president obama insists these trips aren't about politics and he approached republicans for pulling back from jobs plans they once support so as not to give him a win. >> give me a win? this isn't about giving me a win. this isn't did about giving democrats or republicans a win. it's about giving the american people a win! >> reporter: well, unless congress comes up with other budget cuts, the 447 billion dollar jobs bill would be paid for by eliminating the tax breaks for the well off. the president will frame that this way and say by closing oil and gas tax loopholes, you get to hire more teachers.
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they have suggested he is open to some compromise, saying if congress only sends him part of the bill, he'll sign it and tell them, hey, send me the rest. >> bill plante, thanks. turning to health care. latest census figures shows from 2009 to 2010 the number of americans without health insurance rose by nearly 1 million and in addition more americans are living below the poverty line more than we have seen in a half century, 46.2 million. joining us from capitol hill is bernie sanders and orrin hatch. both to have you with us this morning. >> good to be with you. >> senator hatch, i know you would like to repeal health care and saying it's bad for the economy. we know to millions the health care system is broken and needed a change. what is your way to change that? >> i think it would be to use 50 state laboratories where the federal government provides
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money, some regulation, but t states themselves works out their own health care. we would find a more efficient health care system and the states much happier. right now, according to cbo, we're going to have a 1.1 trillion dollars in additional taxes and penalties and 700 billion dollars in deficit the next ten years, 311 billion dollars in extra spending and you could go down the line. it's just a disaster. and it would be much better if we would turn to the states, have the federal government help basically providing the money and then -- and some ideas, but not have this one size fits all really socialist medicine approach that literally isn't going to work. >> senator, you are the chairman of the health sub committee and led a hearing yesterday talking about this. statistically there isn't a huge difference in the number of people who are covered. is the plan actually working in
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your eyes? the health care plan that went into effect? or should there be a different approach perhaps like senator hatch just offered? >> well, here is the reality. we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as the people of any other nation, yet our health care outcome in many ways are worse. we are the only nation in the industrialized world that does not cover every man, woman and child in terms of health care as a right of citizenship. we spend more, we get less, because we have insurance companies in the middle. it's to make as much money as they possibly can. where i do agree with senator hatch i would like to see some states, perhaps the state of vermont lead the country in going forward with single payer program which says every man, woman, child has health care as a right and do it in a most cost effective way. >> senator hatch, the plan he
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told about in his home state of vermont. do you think that would work in a number of states? >> i think vermont would be better off if they could do that. i think he is right on that. 50 million people aren't being covered by this act. the federal government -- look. they are making decisions for everybody in america. a lot better to bring this program closer to home where the people within the states in accordance with their own demographics and own needs and own problems can solve these problems. so i got to tell you, they are going to be, according to the cbo, 800 lost jobs because of this obama care. premiums willing up 120 dollars per family. it isn't going to work opinion the almighty federal government hasn't shown us they can handle anything in effect of health care. >> reporter: a lot of american people feel the folks in washington they elected to do a specific job have not shown they can do that job with a lot of
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infighting. you two both agreed on certain points this morning. only 15 seconds. do you think there is something even if changes that could be worked on and even discussed when there are differences between all the different folks in washington? senator sanders, the first word on that. >> the answer is yes. but the idea to say that the people don't like federal health care programs is totally wrong. medicare is a strong program. it has its problems. ask the american people. senator hatch may want to cut back on medicare. i don't. i don't want it cut or the eligibility age raise. the american people support is and i want to make sure is stays strong. >> let's be honest about it. the programs do not work the way they should and running us into bankrupt and wind out -- >> can you work together with folks on the other side of the aisle? >> i think bernie and i actually could work together, even though he approaches things far differently and believes in the federal government a lot more than i do. i believe in the state governments and i think in all reality, we can do a better job.
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>> if you guys say you can work together, we will look to you for that. >> going forward. >> good. >> i'd love that! >> thank you both. >> thank you. >> good to see them getting along! >> good to see them getting along. hold them to that. >> started infighting at the tend i. just missing cumbayah. here is jeff glor with more of the headlines this morning. >> always good to bring people together early. good morning. this morning iran says the reported plan to release two american hikers is not eminent, only under review. a lawyer for the hikers tell cbs news he is confident they will be released today or saturday. josh fattal and shane bauer sentenced to eight years in prison last month. yesterday, iran president mahmoud ahmadinejad said they would be freed for $500,000 each bail. a third hiker sarah shourd was
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released a year ago today. two huge french banks have suffered the same fait. because of the potential damage from the greek debt crisis, two were downgraded by one notch by moodi moodiys rrg target's website is sluggish after crashing all day yesterday thanks to high demand for the new sony high fashion collection mission dunn i. it made a special 400 piece line at target to a fraction of their jaw-dropping prices. the response as a target spokesman put it was mousanni mayhem with nearly all items selling out. this morning, the brutal summer heat drags on in texas where this summer has been the hottest ever recorded in the u.s. one city, wichita falls, has seen 100-degree temperatures on 100 days. we have more now from
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meteorologist gary seith at kttv. >> 70 days of north 00s in north texas and chasing a record of 69 days in 100 and now in the number one spot for 100 degree days and in the hottest summer ever seen in these parts. 90.6 reading beats 1980 and come out of our hottest august in north texas but only here in dallas/ft. worth and indicative of the rest of the state. the state of texas now logging up 86.8 degrees the average temperature for the summer and makes it squarely the hottest summer we have seen and the hottest any state has ever seen. in terms of rainfall, over the past year, we have logged up such little rainfall, it's the lowest we have ever seen. it makes the drought here of 2011 the most intense and rivaled the multiyear grout in the 1950s. the prognosis for us for this winter season? we have cooler winter months ahead but warmer compared to our average but, more importantly, drier so looks like the drought
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has no end in sight. from here in dallas/ft. worth, back to you, jeff, in new york. >> all right. on the other extreme now. some in the midwest waking up to a frost advisory and freeze warning. in effect for portions of the dakotas, minnesota, wisconsin, nebraska, and iowa. that is well ahead of the normal first fros
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time to cover up the plants and vegetables out there, huh? >> it is! whoa! frost on september 14th. not fair. still ahead, the heroes of logan, utah, lifting up a car to free a man trapped below. he says they saved his life. we will talk about four of the heroes about their daring rescue. we will check in on the west memphis three adjusting to life after 18 years in prison. two of them will speak about the deal that got them out and what their days of freedom have been like. their first tv interview. this is "the early show" on cbs. it's new! ahhh-ahh-ahh!
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still ahead this morning, the pictures that are just impossible to forget when you see them. this group of people, we first showed it to you yesterday, they rushed right in to lift up that car that is on fire, all to help a stranger trapped underneath.
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>> they had to lift the car up to get this guy out. no one, as can you see, even hesitated. look at the flames all around this bmw and the motorcycle which is fully engulfed there. we will go live to utah in a few moments to speak to four of the people involved with the rescue yesterday. unbelievable pictures and captivating the nation. we will talk to these four when we come back on "the early show." >> announcer: this morning of "the early show" sponsored by at&t. get it faster. rethink possible. [ cellphone translating ] [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks the same language. ♪ in here, forklifts drive themselves. ♪ look at the map. okay. [ male announcer ] in here, friends leave you messages written in the air. that's it right there. [ male announcer ] it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say.
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♪ good morning. a beautiful start of the day here in new york city. welcome back to "the early show." i'm chris wragge, with erica hill. now reunions are over the west memphis three are adjusting to life on the outside and spent half of their lives behind bars after arkansas jury found them guilty of killing three cub scouts. >> their sudden release from prison last month made headlines all over the world. well, now they are speaking out about that decision that allowed them to go free. a decision where they actually had to accept guilt for a crime they say they never committed. you'll hear part of an exclusive interview with them for the saturday's 48 hours mystery and that is coming up. first, here this morning, a follow-up to an amazing rescue we showed you tuesday. a motorcycle rider pulled from under a burning car is thanking the group of heroes who risked their lives to save him. cbs news national correspondent ben tracy has more on this sudden drama all caught on video. >> the motorcycle is on fire. >> the motorcycle is on fire.
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it's on fire. >> the motorcycle is on fire. car starting on fire right now. it's going to go right now. >> reporter: from the ninth floor of a university of utah state building, a man with a camera start shooting these pictures. his colleagues thought people were caught inside of the car. >> get them out of the car. >> reporter: callers to 911 knew what really happened. >> is anybody hurt? >> yeah. i think the motorcycle rider is down. >> a man underneath the car. >> when i arrived, it was smoking the fire was pretty big. i looked down and my eyes to the fingers of the victim under the car. i came around the other side and ducked down and he was stuck under there. >> reporter: the motorcycle rider who collided with the bmw was now trapped under the burning car. >> i don't know if it's going to explode or not. >> reporter: that is when a small army of bystanders rushed into help. >> it doesn't care who was under the car. as long as we give him a second chance. >> reporter: racing with time
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and effort dangerous and desperate. able to lift the car and 21-year-old brandon wright was pulled from underneath. at first it appeared he might be debt. >> he is moving! >> reporter: his uncle says brandon has only some broken bones and road rash and frightening memories. >> he remembers the accident happening and he says he remember being under the car and spitting up blood and not able to talk and said it was scared when he wasn't able to talk. at some point after they pulled him out and they started to try to interact with him, he was able to speak. >> reporter: late tuesday, a posting of brandon's facebook page. thank you for all your well wished and prayers and support. i'm still in the icu. i'd like to personally thank the brave heroes who saved my life -- strangers who rushed in knowing it was simply their moment to help. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. joining us now are logan utah police sergeant jason
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olsen, along with utah state sunts kelsey alder and james odei and abbas al sharif who helped save brandon wright. good morning. >> good morning. >> we saw in the piece kelsey you were able to get under the car and see brandon there. did you think any chance he would be alive under that car? >> sorry. can't hear you. >> you were the first person to get there and see brandon underneath the car. what were you expecting? did you think he was still alive? were you amazed to see him in the position he was in? >> yeah. the guy next to me told me he was breathing so i went down to check on him. yeah, it was pretty crazy to see him there, but like i don't know. i had faith he would get out of there, so. >> what condition was he in -- after you guys were able to lift the car off of him when he first started moving, did he come to his senses at all? was there any indication that he knew where he was or what had happened?
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>> officer, the scene when you first came on, you see all of these people around this car. a fire burning. were you afraid at any point for the lives of the people who volunteered to help get the car off of him? >> absolute right. from the very beginning, i was concerned that they were starting to get such a crowd around there. but when they had organized and it looked like their plan was going to work, you know, we wanted to get the people there, the victim out from under the car. right after he was extracted, i was telling everybody don't drag him too far and then got everybody away from the fire. >> james and abbas, you jumped right in as well. were either one of you fearful the car might explode? >> i did not think of the car going to explode because when i came out, what i saw was on the road and trying to look beneath the car and that is when it
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caught my attention that it was somebody under the car. but what i saw was more to do with the motorcycle being on fire, so i did not think of the car going to explode at that very moment. so i quickly jump in to give a helping hand to lift the car. >> how heavy was this car? were you working on adrenaline at this point? did you think maybe you weren't going to lift it off of him? >> i did not even think of how heavy the car was at that very moment. all i thought was if we could just find a way to lift this car, maybe this guy would get a second chance to live, because from all the indications, kelsey and tom were trying to help, it was like he had a chance. he was still breathing so that was all that pushed me to go ahead and give a helping hand. >> abbas, you all are being called heroes. what is it that like to have a title days after being part of a rescue like this? >> i think like, you know, we are just human beings helping
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another human being to get another chance to live, you snow we were like very hopeful like he is still alive. so we didn't think twice before like going and helping brandon. >> yeah. sergeant olsen, what does this say to the people that rushed to the aid of this man? considering how dangerous a situation this was? >> well, i can't say enough about these people's willingness to get involved and help us. if they hadn't of done that, it could have turned out very differently. and, you know, what they overcome says a lot about their wanting to help somebody out and putting theirselves at risk. >> well, you saved a life and, obviously, he has responded. brandon has responded on his facebook page. he says send a big thank you to all of you. you all did a wonderful job and marvelous thing and thank you for the time this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you.
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>> thank you. >> good job, guys. thanks so much. >> just human beings helping another human being. >> such a dangerous situation. you see the fire and you say this thing could blow up at any moment but, again, they put their personal safety in the back seat for just a moment. >> i want them there if i need someone! jeff glor is standing by with another look at the headlines. although i know you both would help if you were there. >> without a doubt. good morning, guys. >> good morning. here in new york, there was a special election last night and a republican candidate was elected to congress in a heavily democratic district. last night, bob turner beat david weprin in a race that turned on a referendum in president obama's policies. he replaces anthony weiner after his sexting scandal. amoded won in nevada to fill a vacancy in the u.s. house.
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the northern nevada district has never elected a democrat. new airport screening rules in the u.s. will soon be in effect. homeland security secretary janet napolitano says children under the age of 12 will be screened without invasive pat-downs and children will also not have to remove their shoes for screening. smoke from a major wildfire in minnesota is blanketing much of the northern midwest today. the 160 square mile fire is in minnesota's north woods near the canadian
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just ahead, now that their nightmare two decades in prison are over, two of the west memphis three are speaking out about life behind bars. >> we are going to hear from them in their first television interview when we come back. this is "the early show" on cbs. ♪ i'm a film star. well, i'm a film, left behind by a floor cleaner i thought was going to take me places. wait! now life is dull... darling! ♪ i believe in miracles [ male announcer ] swiffer attracts dirt. swiffer wetjet's new upgraded solution loosens and lifts off dirt to help prevent streaks and residue. and reveal more shine than a mop or your money back. you had me at "bzzzzz".
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a good source of fiber and made with whole grain. so chl attention on the memphis three. they say they did not commit those murders. >> two of men spoke to "48 hours" correspondent erin moriarty about their ordeal in the first weeks of freedom. >> the first thing i did, i just smiled and got like a thousand hugs. i smiled so much that my face actually hurt! i just felt like everything was right. like here is the time to begin. >> reporter: jason baldwin is beginning his life at age 34.
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doing the kinds of simple things most of us take for granted. on august 19th, as part of a rarely used plea agreement, jason, damien echols and jessie misskelley were suddenly and shockingly released from the arkansas prisons they spent the last 18 years. damien had been on death row. >> i had been in solitary confinement at that point by ten years. i hadn't had sunlight in almost a decade. i was eating garbage. i was under stress that most human beings will never be able to comprehend. >> reporter: what made the release so shocking is that these men, known as the west memphis three had been convicted of one of the most heinous crimes in state history. the killing of three 8-year-old boys in 1993. >> the little boys were found in a drainage ditch mutilated and beaten to death. >> reporter: yet almost from the beginning there were questions about their guilt. there was no physical evidence tying them to the crime.
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jason, just 16 at the time, was offered a deal. five years in exchange for his testimony against his best friend damien echols. he refused. >> i'd be guilty of murdering damien because that is what it would have done, it would have put him on death row. >> reporter: a jury sent damien to death row anyway. >> damien echols sentenced to death by lethal injection. >> reporter: nearly evidence not only supports the evidence of the three convicted men, some dna actually points to other people. last month, the state agreed to release the men, but the deal, known as an out fer plea required all three to do what they had refused to do, plead guilty. >> to me, this seems like a cheap way for the state to save face. >> reporter: once again, jason turned down a deal. >> i told them i would not accept a plea because it's
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wrong. anybody logical and reasonable and unbiased can look at it and realize that they had the wrong guys. >> reporter: but after supporters. >> there is a further tragedy happening. >> reporter: including musician eddie vetter, begged him to save damien echols, jason, again, stepped up for his friend. >> if i took this deal, guarantee his life being saved this time. so i took the deal. no regrets now. i'm living a great life! i'm free for the first time ever! >> erin moreiarmoriarty, cbs ne >> you can see the full show on cbs this friday night. some moms believe the car crash that killed their sons should never have happened. >> we will look at their fight for a new federal law restricting teenage drivers. this is "the early show" on cbs.
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♪ top of the hour. welcome back to "the early show" on this wednesday morning. i'm erica hill, along with chris wragge. my shoe fell off! >> hey, i showered morning. have you heard about the missoni mayhem? what someone called it. >> they ran out of their shoes! >> they ran out of their shoes! >> we talked to you yesterday about missoni which is known for their zigzag knit pieces. they were doing this deal with target. a lot of excitement for it. the website crashed. stores run down. one employee described it worse than black friday. everything is apparently sold out including the rain boots chris was after. it's a tragedy. >> good stuff. >> it's a tragedy. it's crazy. i admit, i want to get some stuff but didn't want to go near
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the place yesterday. >> the zigzags make me look taller. like the wedding dresses where the ladies fly in to get the wedding dresses. if target wanted to generate some buzz, i would say mission accomplished, right? >> definitely. >> this is something that just makes customers pretty darn mad because they want some of these items, now they can't get them! rebecca jarvis will take a look at that and where do we stand now? if people don't know about missoni its so expensive and to have an opportunity to get in, a lot of wanted to. >> not happy and update out that situation. officials from facebook head to capitol hill today and one of the issues at hand, the privacy of facebook's users. cbs news congressional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill this morning with a preview for us. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, erica. the meeting between facebook and lawmakers follows another meeting between google ceo and lawmakers last week. there's a lot of money at stake
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in these discussions about internet privacy. any time you go online or use your cell phone, there's a good chance that someone, somewhere is sharing your personal information with a stranger. >> there's a lot of tracking of where you surf on the internet, lots of different advertising networks and other people are keeping track that have. >> reporter: there is nothing illegal about it and that troubles many lawmakers. >> we shouldn't be debating this. >> reporter: massachusetts congressman ed markey co-chairs a committee to introduce legislation to prevent companies from sharing personal information about children. >> it's just about making sure kids get to grow up in an electronic oasis, that does not come back to haunt them and their families. >> reporter: but many tech companies and social networking sites fear too much regulation could get in the way of new technology and put the u.s. behind the tech curve. >> the trick is not to legislate around a particular technology,
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because the technology will be different next year and the year after that. the trick is to somehow get some basic rules of the road and not to close down particular technologies. >> reporter: with so much at stake, google spend $2 million to lobby congress just in the first quarter of this year. facebook, which has struggled with privacy issues in the past, hired former clinton press secretary joe lockhart and added former clinton chief of staff to its board of directors. both very familiar faces in washington. one of the issues being scrutinized right now is just how much information companies like google and apple should be able to track on your smart phone. essentially, erica, where is the line between commerce and privacy? >> tough one. cbs's nancy cordes on capitol hill this morning, thanks. jeff glor is at the news desk with another check of the headlines. >> good morning. a special election last night, a republican victory in heavily democratic congressional
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district? new york. bob turner evaluation defeated david weprin in a district hasn't elected a republican since the 1920s. turner said it sent a loud and clear message to washington. >> we have been told this is a referendum and we are ready to say, mr. president, we are on the wrong track. >> turn replaces anthony weiner who resigned amid his sexting scandal. in nevada, the economy was again a major issue. mark amoded fills a vacant house seat. a district never elected democrat and he promised to fight for a balanced budget. >> you've got to start doing budgetary stuff which stabilizes the economy instead of spending a trillion six more than you have. here is a look now. the gain in new york and the hole in nevada leaves republicans with 49-seat majority in the house. this morning, the president is back on the road to push his new jobs plan.
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he was in ohio yesterday. he visits the raleigh/durham area in north carolina today. he'll be calling, again, for quick passage of his jobs plan in a state that 10% unemployment. finally, a look at the science behind laughter. we all know it makes us feel better to laugh, but why? british researchers say the muscular exertion involved in laughing triggers an increase in endorphi endorphins, the feel-good chemicals in the brain.
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>> announcer: this weather reported sponsored by aveeno. discover the power of active naturals. in iran this morning, judicial officials say they are reviewing bail arrangements for shane bauer and josh fattal and makes it less likely the two will be freed later this week as iran's president said on tuesday. he is headed for the u.s. next week for meetings at the united nations. >> journalist maziar bahari was covering iran's 2009 election for "newsweek" magazine when he was arrested and sent to the same prison as bauer and fattal. his book details his nightmarish days behind bars. good morning to you. we get the good news yesterday they are going to be released. then hear this morning, not so fast. may not be this week. conflicting reports. what does this say? >> the point is iran is run by a
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group of thugs and they have a very thuggish behavior and, as such, they are very unpredictable and they want to be unpredictable because they want to make the lives of their own citizens as insecure as possible in order to rule them, and they want the international community to be insecure about the next actions of the iranian government so very unpredictable. >> is it a setback or par for the course? >> no, no. unfortunately, these three americans, right now, josh fattal and shane bauer, they are entangled in two different battles. the battle between iran and the united states. and also the internal fighting between different factions within the islamic republic. who knows what will happen. the judiciary is run by a separate book than the presidency. >> the judiciary has the power to release them not the president? >> they are all -- >> got you.
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>> he is a very pragmatic person at the same time. at the same time, he is very ideological. >> we wait and we watch. you have been in the same prison. you were there for 118 days. you actually heard josh and shane come in. talk to us a little bit about that experience and what you learned about them. >> well, one night, i heard two american voices, two male american voices and then the next day, i asked one of my prison guards, who are they? who are these people? he told me they are cia chiefs in iran. then i heard them several times again in the interrogation room. they were being interrogated in the room next to me. i never saw them because whenever you step out of your prison cell, you have to have a blind fold on. and one day, i remember one of them was asking the prison guard, i want to go to the bathroom and the prison guard, of course, he couldn't speak english so he was saying, okay, okay, okay, okay. one of the hikers kept on saying bathroom, bathroom. it was very difficult. i thought i had it easy because
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at least i could speak the language and i could communicate. >> you couldn't say the guy needs to go to the bathroom because you put yourself in bathroom? >> actually, i yelled they need to go to the bathroom. >> what is it like in the prison? what was it like having been there? >> the physical conditions are not that bad. i always say that the -- in food in iran pretty much is much better than the airline foods. doesn't say much but much better than the airline food. the interrogation, the psychological harassment. the fact you're in a solitary confinement for 24 hours a day, that's a torture. i mean, if anyone wants to see how does it feel to be in solitary confinement for a long period of time, they have to go to a room and close it for 24 hours and you cannot open the door and have to ask to go to the bathroom. it's very difficult. >> why does iran make a deal like this just weeks after sentencing these two to eight years in prison? why, all of a sudden, now come forward and say we are going to release them in the next few
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motor vehicle accidents are the leading death for teenagers. >> now a new study that shows states with the toughest graduated licensing programs, that means limits be that sort of eases as they get ordinarily, are bringing the tragic numbers
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down. cbs news correspondent michelle miller takes a look now at what is at stake for teens and their parents. >> just takes one bad decision and it can change everything. >> reporter: it happened in an instant. 16-year-old mike ool and his friend were killed in a car crash. their mothers found out if from a nurse in the emergency room. >> she said she had two boys there from a car accident and that somebody needed to go and identify them. and i couldn't do it. >> reporter: the boys were among six teens packed into a honda suv that night. at the wheel was a 16-year-old friend who had only recently passed hid driver's test. the driver had been smoking marijuana and then dropped his cell phone. >> so he bent down to try to find it.
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when he came up, he steered them straight into the embankment and flipped them. >> reporter: the two mothers believe had there been tougher rules for their drivers in pennsylvania, their children might still be alive. >> if the law was in place, there would be no question, you would just say, that's the law, you know? >> reporter: a new study shows that strong graduated license programs do save young lives. the study, published in the journal of the american medical association, found states with such programs had a 26% lower rate of fatal crashes for 16-year-old drivers. >> it's not just the teen drivers that are dying on our highways. it's the teen passengers and it's other people like you and me that are sharing the road with these teens. >> reporter: jackie gillan of the advocates for highway and auto safety says three key components to a graduated license program. restricting the number of passengers, restricting nighttime driving, and preventing cell phone use. >> and when states do that, we
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have found that it almost immediately results in saving lives. >> reporter: safety advocates are now pushing congress to pass a federal graduated licensing law. >> it doesn't make sense when we know that they will save so many lives, to have a different set of rules for different teens and different states. >> reporter: opponents have raised questions about federal involvement and what they view as a state and personal matter. but now these two moms are speaking out so other families won't have to go through what they have. >> they don't mean to hurt anybody and they don't mean to do the wrong thing. they just -- they are kids and they can't think of the consequences. it doesn't come to them until it's too late. >> reporter: michelle miller, cbs news, new york. now despite the significant reduction in fatal crashes for 16-year-olds, the new study found 18-year-old drivers had slightly more fatal accidents. the authors say more research is needed to understand why. up next, target.com, well,
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♪ baby i'm crazy maybe you're crazy ♪ >> crazy for missoni. on tuesday, we told but a special promotion at trtinged. target has done this thing a few years. they bring in a high designer that corrects a collection just for target. this time it was italian designed company missoni. these things retail for thousands of dollars. we predicted shoppers would go nuts. hello! hi. this is just one store. the website crashed. >> this is great camera angle
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too knocked around like that. >> target's website crashed over and over and still slow morning. that is the understatement of the day there. the target spokesman calls it missoni mayhem. rebecca jarvis is here with more on this this morning. hey, i guess when you put a big designer like that and make it real cheap, you'll get everybody on board. >> they did a ton of promotions, too. such a big push. they had to know that there would be this kind of demand! >> they knew there would be this kind of demand but they didn't realize they wouldn't be able to meet the terms in bandwidth on their website. you have a statement from target this morning, erica. they came out and said we are really sorry. we didn't anticipate our website was going to, you know, combust in this situation. >> yeah. amazon had been doing a lot of their back end technology a while. the statement reads target.com is seeing greater item demand than we do a typical black friday and the excitement for this limited time designer
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collection is unprecedented and it has ticked off a lot of people. >> it has. which is funny. because target, you know, what could a retailer wish for an environment like this? every retailer would wish for this but unfortunately if they can't meet the demand and people, we're hearing it in twirt a twitter and facebook, i'm angry and will not shop at target any more. >> put up one of the facebook messages out. there while we do that, how how much money is target losing by this huge miscue? >> we are still going to have to see. here you have this person saying this is ridiculous. i'm not going to allow myself to get swept up in the hype in the future. target -- you should have been better prepared! here you have a person who is basically saying if target comes out with another highly hyped brand, maybe they are not going purchase it and that would be an issue. >> someone else said on twitter the shelves stocking missoni have been emptied like a grocery store before a big snowstorm or perhaps a hurricane at this time
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of the year. an employ said it was almost as bad as black friday. here is the thing. you've been checking ebay. 20,000 items available now? >> that is wrhere they are goin. three, four times the price. towels for $80. who would pay that? they are on ebay this morning. they went into target.com and already flipped them. it's like real estate. >> marked up four times than what you would get at target but probably 50% less than as missoni. >> exactly. >> we did a piece on this yesterday. they said they will never do a line like this again. >> that keeps demand so high because they tell you it's a limited time, limited inventory and then you have something like this happen. >> target, send us some items and tell you whether it's worth
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the talk bares it all. >> are you ever comfortable naked? >> i get this fear i will see someone looking at me and i go that is what naked looks like now. >> today, the guy wives josh charles. what is next for him and julie anna marg anna? if you look closely, there we are right in the corner there! hi, everybody. welcome back. i'm chris wragge along with erica hill. the wait is over. "survivor south pacific" premieres tonight and takes place in samoa. the third time it is there. two years ago, the pacific island nation was devastated by a tsunami. betty nguyen will show us how this reality show has provided the locals with some much needed jobs and, of course, publicity. also ahead this morning, we know women's bodies change
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during and after pregnancy, but did you know that having a child can also affect a man? after. according to a new study men lose up to a third of their testosterone when they become fathers and early stages of being a father. we play that around when we play he said/she said. >> jeff glor is standing over there. >> no way! >> come on! before we get to that, it is game on over at microsoft. they are putting the final touches now on windows 8. hoping to turn microsoft into a major player for smart phones and tablets. >> windows 8 doesn't come until next year, but previews are already online. joininging us is jason tanz. windows 8 what is this that we are speaking about? how updated a version is this for windows 8? does this put microsoft back on the map? >> it's a radical rethinking of the operating system. the for the first time they have designed an operating system
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that works on mobile devices like phones and tablets, as well as the personal computer. >> the advantage to it that for the consumer is that you have this seamless transition from your desktop to your hand-held device. >> to the cloud is the way it works. if you think about apple's devices they have different operating systems they have the ios and os-10 variations for the desktop and the reason is because you need these things to run lean and mean, right? these are slim devices with -- they are maximized to run on the thin devices. >> all of this talk, too, this is really where people are headed. a study the other day said we are getting to the point people are accessing the internet more on their phones and tablets from their desktops. so it's funny but microsoft is in this post-pc world. >> they are joining that fray and a long transition for microsoft. we are talking about the death of the desktop at least five,
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eight years with web appalachian and google documents and stuff like that. microsoft's fortunes have been very tied to the continued success of the pc industry and at some point, they can't fight it any more. they have to try to disrupt that business and it's a very hard calculation for a company like microsoft to make because they are in some sense killing their bread and butter by this move. >> seams like they are a little late into the game though. is it perception they have fallen behind or have they really? all we hear about is iphone, ipad. >> they are fallen behind. there idea in technology called dilemma for innovators. the industry thinks the old players get completely wiped out and some new model takes place and hard for an established company to take place in that because they have huge businesses to protect. >> it's tough, too, when they started out as one of the innovators. the other thing we have to think about. all of these companies started out as something and a perfect example. we touched on this a little bit. how much of the future of microsoft realistically depends
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on windows 8 being a success? >> i think it's hard to understate it. you know? if you think about it, we will start seeing the devices next year. by that point, you know, who knows where tablets will be in a year, right? look what has happened the last two years. if they miss this and elements of it don't work and if it's not successful it will be another five years before they can try again? who knows what the tablet market will be like at that point. again, it's not just -- it's not just a symbolic gesture for them. this is core to their growth. >> early review from now? >> you know, all early reports are very positive actually. very positive. >> all right. jason, thank you. >> jeff glor is standing by with a final check of your headlines. >> a final good morning to you. good morning to everyone at home. highway unemployment and sluggish economy have combined to push poverty not seen in decades. 46 million people last year
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living below the poverty line. the poverty rate topped 15%. the highest level since 1983. last year, the poverty line was 22,314 a year for a family of four. the latest report from the commerce department on retail sales says they were unchanged in august. meanwhile, the labor department reports the producer price index for august also is unchanged. a drop in energy prices offset costlier food. a warning this morning about a listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes. four people have been killed by the bacteria in colorado and new mexico. other cases have been reported in texas, oklahoma, nebraska, and indiana. rocky ford cantaloupes grown in the area southeast of denver are suspected. a recall has not been ordered yet. a recall has been issued this morning for 98,000 dehumidifiers for safety reasons. the gold star dehumidifiers are sold in walt mart and home depot
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and ace hardware and other retailers. they can overheat and catch fire. jose baez the lawyer who defended casey anthony is now representing an american being held in aruba. buy he's says he has been hired as a consultant to defend gary giordano who is a suspect in the disappearance of robyn gardner. he has been jailed nearly a month now. he says gardner was swept out to sea while snorkeling. you're relieved to know gumby has surrendered! >> thank goodness. >> he tried and failed to hold up a 7-eleven in san diego last week. he has turned himself in. he said he had a uniform malfunction and left the store without leaving without any money and dropped some change on the floor, 26 cents worth. he turned himself in, including the gumby suit. >>
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my single biggest problem with my gumby outfit, no pockets. >> such a pain, isn't it? yeah. >> survivor premieres on cbs tonight. the winner gets a million dollars but the reward for the country hosting the series is priceless. >> betty nguyen is here with more of her series on survivor's return to samoa. >> "survivor" has a crew of over 300 and injects millions into the local economy. that is until disaster strikes.
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"survivor" just finished film in issamoa i2009 when a massive tsunami slammed into the island nation. >> i never believed they would come back. >> reporter: so samoa's prime minister, a reality show returning to the scene of a real life crisis seemed out of the question. his nation was reeling from a deadly tsunami. the show, a distant memory. but with the country trying to mend and needing a lift, the prime minister asked "survivor'' location scouts to at least take a look. were you surprised about the devastation? >> what i was surprised about is how much of that devastation had been rebuild. >> really? >> that sprefed murprised me. >> if we can come back to samoa, we need to. we need to let the world know it's still fine and usa place to
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be and they need the money. >> reporter: how were you notified that "survivor" was coming back and what was your reaction? >> one day i got this very innocent looking message. i read it. and i jumped. >> reporter: you actually jumped? >> oh, yes! >> reporter: including throwing a ceremony reserved for the most honored of guests at a most critical time for a nation whose number one industry is tourism. "survivor" does more than attract tourists. this show alone was injected $6 million into the samoan economy. >> currently, we have 284 people in local payroll so we create a lot of job opportunities. >> reporter: so when you heard "survivor" was coming back to sam samoa, how excited were you? >> oh, i was very excited, yeah! >> reporter: it's a job tasha needed. she worked as a production assistant on survivor the last time it was here before the tsunami took an economic toll.
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now she is back at it and can help support her family. >> financially, you know, it puts money in the bank! >> reporter: other samoans are also benefiting from "survivor"'s $6 million stimulus. >> they come and show you, maybe they saved up their money to buy a new car or new things. you definitely see the effects, yes. >> it's good to see, you know, that these people are back on their feet and moving forward. >> it's a cool place. it worked out well for everyone, i think, coming back. >> reporter: including one samoan who rarely misses a survivor episode. you're an avid fan? >> that's right. >> reporter: looking forward to the next season? >> oh, yes, yes. >> reporter: the new season will feature his nation with scenic backdrops that may, one day, welcome visitors not only from abroad, but also from home. ♪ >> reporter: is it cool to watch it on television, to see your country, see this island? >> oh, yeah!
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some of the shots it was like i have no idea where that is but it looks good! it looks good! >> that is actually something that we came across, a lot in sam samoa. people talked to us about the fact that there were amazing beaches and waterfalls but didn't realize it was there until they saw the show. from the prime minister on down the show is huge in samoa. next week we wrap up our series with jeff probst. >> we are voting you now off the island! >> no, never. >> come on. it premieres tonight at 8:00 on cbs tonight. take a look at another type of survivor. after years of battling drugs and the law, home musician in denver is suddenly an internet sensation thanks to a tech savvy friends and jeff glor is here with that story. >> a pretty great story. most of us have walked by a street musician and thought that
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person is talented but we generally keep walking. one man in denver found a voice he couldn't walk past and his decision to stop and listen may have changed that musician's life forever. ♪ >> my name is david adabanjo. i perform under the name of dred scott. >> reporter: the son of ivy league educated parents, he is honing his craft on the same denver streets he calls home. >> i've live everywhere from on the streets to in jails and in prisons. ♪ ♪ purple rain purple rain >> i've done some things, you know, that i'm not that proud of. ♪ purple rain purple rain >> i mean, i've had a pretty hard road and everything. >> reporter: day after day, he performs for anyone passing by.
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>> thank you very much. >> reporter: on the 16th street mall. then after an encounter with local musician tyler ward, his life changed. >> i was walking to my car and, all of a sudden, i heard this voice from the corner of the street and i was like, what is that? and i just walked over there. i stood there for about 20 minutes and i listened to dred play music. ♪ to bring some loving >> he came up to me. he said he liked the stuff that i was performing, said that he had a website that he would be interested in me performing a video for his website. >> reporter: but ward's website isn't just any website. his youtube channel gets anywhere from 300,000 to 700,000 hits every day. dred's soulful voice was now being heard way beyond the sidewalks of the 16th street mall. >> the thing that drew me in about dred's voice was the uniqueness, rawness of it. it was like you can hear in a
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sense the emotion that was presented through the songs. you can tell he's been through some stuff. ♪ only see you in purple rain ♪ >> reporter: dred's cover of the prince classic "purple rain" went viral and attracting more than 600,000 views. chills. i got goose bumps wrote one fan. he is way better than justin bieber and lady gaga combined said another. the recordings he sold on itunes have given dread a much-kneed financial boost and he has made close to $6,000. next month he will release his deb debut album. >> when you see a great talent who is living on the streets, you're just kind of like what can you do to help? instead of literally just giving him a buck or two, it's like, let's see if he can really change his life, and that, to me, i mean, it's rewarding, absolutely. ♪ freedom still
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>> reporter: dred says he is not looking for a chance to become music's next big thing. he wants a chance to support himself with his passion. >> i might be able to beat the hype, i guess you'd say. i might be able to beat the odds. i'm going to try and convince as many people as possible to give me a try. to come check out what i got to offer. ♪ >> yeah! yeah. >> talking about beating the odds. dred says all of these projects keeps him so busy he is available to avoid some of the temptations that have haunted him and others in the past. >> amazing. >> i know exactly where i'm logging on to. >> purple rain". >> good stuff. >> yeah. ahead, the tales of testosterone. why fatherhood literally changes the makeup of men's
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♪ men are changing.
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there is so much talk about how a lot of times men are more involved fathers and seen as being more loving and sensitive and caring, especially when they are new dads, when they are just learning about the new role. >> according to two new studies it has nothing to do with getting in touch with our inner selves. more about stress and diapers. >> reporter: researchers determined a buy logical reasons dad are more sensitive after becoming fathers. >> now i know i'll remember this moment for the rest of my life. >> reporter: the study found that when men about him parents, their testosterone levels drop by as much as 40%. experts that say be nature's way of making men more committed to their family. >> i love to have this kind of time with their kids. >> you're looking at one! i'm telling you, i'm a rel phil donahue here shra. >> reporter: the second study it's better ton alpha better than a beta. >> greed is good. >> reporter: researchers observing baboons discovered that dominant members of the
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species enjoy more food, prominent roles in society and better access to perspective mates. >> we're going out. >> you are? >> reporter: they experience higher levels of stress hormone and too much could lead to health problems like increased bill plante and weakened immune system. >> i have to monitor my bill plante. >> when you do a study on men, bring in the baboons, right? >> you said it, not me. >> take a closer look now and with matt titus author of "why hasn't he call?" and dr. logan levkoff how to have sex with you, her new book. >> i have to admit as soon as i saw this, i thought to myself. >> what did you think? >> matt, i'm sorry, going to have, i'm sorry, true, creative neanderthal responses. >> i was wondering about these
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guys i would see toting diaper bags and those things with the kid there. >> called an ergo. highly recommend it. >> i didn't know what that was. i called them nipplers because if they could they would breast-feed their own children sqlam it bothers me! i don't know. makes me want to beat my chest and swim across the hudson. >> here is the thing. what meant don't realize men who are hands-on caregivers and good parents actually get more sex. >> they do. >> because we are turned on by the fact you're involved. so who cares if your testosterone level drops a bit. you're having more sex anyway. that's good. >> at the end of the day, matt, someone like you, isn't that what you care about? i'm getting more action, i'm happy. >> if i had to turn into someone of a woman to have more sex with my wife, it would sort of bother me. >> how is taking care of your child making you more of a woman? >> it's not just taking care of the child. i see these men as not being
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concerned with their masculinity and not like like they used to and assuming more of a feminine role and bothers me. you can be just as a man has ever been. >> called the diaper dude! >> i would never carry a diaper bag. chris, please say something! like a diaper dude? >> i want to have a kid so i can have a diaper dude! >> you can borrow one of mine. >> one more thing. i've had these guy friends. they were casanovas and gotten married and become more concerned with their baby sleeping patterns and the teething than having sex! than pleasing their wife. >> isn't that part of the transition, though? it does happen. >> it's a huge part of the transition and if testosterone is dropping because men have a buy logical imperative to spread their seed and become parents. it's a normal kind of thing and i think it's important that men are capable, maybe not you, of he emotional connection and
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intimacy and warmth. >> you go through stages in your life. part of that is when you settle down you want to become a parent. you get to a point you're a casano casanova. it isn't that attractive. it's pathetic. >> i think men give up and assume a female role during this child-rearing years. i can't believe the change in a man when he has a child. >> we don't want you to become maternal. we want you to be our equal partner. because less stress for us means a better relationship for us. >> absolutely. my husband is one of the sexiest men that i know. >> i'm sure he is. look at you. >> a stay at home dad for two years. to watch your husband with your children, there is nothing more attractive than to see someone take care of their offspring. >> where is he?
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